Ellis Kaut

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Elisabeth "Ellis" Kaut (born November 17, 1920 in Stuttgart ; † September 24, 2015 at Fürstenfeldbruck ) was a German children's book author who became very successful internationally through the invention of the Pumuckl . She has also written novellas for adults and some illustrated books.

Live and act

Ellis Kaut came to Munich when her parents, a bank manager and a Swabian farmer's daughter, moved to Munich when she was two years old . In 1938, at the age of 17, she was named the first official Munich child . After school, she completed a two-year acting course and got an engagement at the Residenztheater in Wiesbaden . At the age of 19 she married the writer Kurt Preis on November 21, 1939 and stayed in Munich; their daughter Ursula was born in March 1945. After studying acting, Ellis Kaut studied sculpture until 1944 . She has been a freelance writer since 1948 and took over speaking roles in radio plays in the 1950s and 1960s. At Bayerischer Rundfunk , she supervised children's programs and wrote manuscripts for them, including the stories of the Musch Kater every two weeks from 1955 to 1962 .

In 1962 she invented the character Pumuckl  - broadcast as a radio play on Bayerischer Rundfunk - for which she was mainly known. In addition, however, she always devoted herself to painting and photography. In contrast to these activities, writing was always hard work for her, she said in an interview in 2010. She always kept a great distance from her literary works. With her foundation for the promotion of reading and youth literature, she encouraged the occupation with books of her genre.

Ellis Kaut had been widowed since 1991 and last lived in the Munich district of Obermenzing . After a long illness, she died on September 24, 2015 at the age of 94 in a nursing home near Fürstenfeldbruck.

The final resting place of Ellis Kaut is located on the forest cemetery of the Munich district Obermenzing (grave field 24).

The grave of Ellis Kaut and husband Kurt Preis, Obermenzing cemetery, Munich.

In 2018, Ellis-Kaut-Straße in the Freiham development area in Munich was named after her.

Pumuckl, the goblin

Kaut is the author of the stories about the goblin Pumuckl, who drives all kinds of spooks in the workshop of master carpenter Eder. Initially broadcast as a radio play by Bayerischer Rundfunk in 1962, the Pumuckl stories were also popular with children as books, records / cassettes, CDs or DVDs and as a television series. A total of around 100 stories were created in which Pumuckl is responsible for excitement and entanglement. The 52-part television series as well as the radio play series with Alfred Pongratz and later Gustl Bayrhammer as Meister Eder and Hans Clarin , who lent Pumuckl his voice and played the heir and cousin of Meister Eder himself in 2002, made the character famous throughout Germany. As Kaut himself explained in the Monday painter broadcast on November 22, 1983, "Pumuckl" was the nickname her husband gave her.

A Pumuckl Museum was built in Ohlstadt , Upper Bavaria .

Other works

In addition to the Pumuckl, the stories of the Kater Musch as well as the flawed devil stories are known to a wider audience. In 1973 the radio play Racket Billy and the Red Sand was created . She also wrote the children's book Schlupp vomgrün Stern , which was published by Südwest-Verlag in 1974 and was filmed in 1986 by the Augsburger Puppenkiste marionette theater . She also published illustrated books with self-made photographs, for example Munich in every season (1990) and Immediately behind Munich - the land of Ludwig Thomas (1993). In 2009 she published her autobiography Just I say I say to myself .

Current issues

  • Pumuckl, bedtime stories . Stories to read aloud and read yourself, retold by Ursula Bagnall, illustrated by the MM Creative Team, Dino Entertainment, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-89748-380-7 .
  • Master Eder and his Pumuckl . Illustrated by Jan Saße, Kosmos, Stuttgart 2015, ISBN 978-3-440-14820-4 .

honors and awards

Web links

Individual evidence

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  3. a b Pumuckl inventor: Ellis Kaut is dead. In: sueddeutsche.de . Süddeutscher Verlag , September 24, 2015, accessed on September 24, 2015 .
  4. ^ Ellis Kaut: Biografisches von Ellis Kaut. (No longer available online.) In: ellis-kaut.de. Archived from the original on September 27, 2015 ; Retrieved September 25, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ellis-kaut.de
  5. Gabriele Meinhard: Ellis Kaut. In: meinhard.privat.t-online.de , June 10, 2007, accessed on September 24, 2015.
  6. BR media library. Accessed January 1, 2019 (German).
  7. Dominik Baur: “Yes, my!” Interview with Ellis Kaut . In: magda.de , MAGDA - Magazine of Authors, April 29, 2010, accessed on September 24, 2015.
  8. Katrin Woitsch: Pumuckl inventor turns 90 today. In: merkur.de , Münchner Merkur , November 17, 2010.
  9. Birgit Müller-Bardorff: Obituary: How Pumuckl inventor Ellis Kaut became a Klabauter mom. In: augsburger-allgemeine.de. Augsburger Allgemeine , September 24, 2015, accessed September 25, 2015 .
  10. a b Hannes Hintermeier : Ellis Kaut is ninety: The Klabautermann from Lehel. In: faz.net , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , November 17, 2010, page 31, accessed on January 1, 2011.
  11. Armin Krattenmacher: Pumuckl Museum in Ohlstadt. In: pumuckl-museum.de . Retrieved September 24, 2015.